Home, Degeneration and Decadence: Discursive Connections between Bénédict Morel and Eugène Viollet-le-duc
This article shows how Bénédict Morel’s degeneration theory underlays Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s architectural discourses. It illustrates how notions that originated in medical and scientific fields such as racial degeneration and the concept of human type were appropriated by Viollet-Le-Duc and us...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Western Australia
2021-10-01
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| Series: | Essays in French Literature and Culture |
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| Online Access: | https://essaysinfrenchliteratureandculture.com/aina-marti-balcells-home-degeneration-and-decadence-discursive-connections-between-benedict-morel-and-eugene-viollet-le-duc-essays-in-french-literature-and-culture-58-2021/ |
| Summary: | This article shows how Bénédict Morel’s degeneration theory
underlays Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s architectural discourses. It
illustrates how notions that originated in medical and scientific
fields such as racial degeneration and the concept of human type
were appropriated by Viollet-Le-Duc and used as critical tools to
create a theory of domestic architecture while also fuelling his attack
on Second-Empire domestic designs. Thus, on the one hand, this
article contributes to scholarship on the influence of medicine and
science in the work of Viollet-Le-Duc. On the other hand, it adds
to the field of the Medical Humanities by providing a comparative
discourse analysis between medical and architectural theories |
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| ISSN: | 1835-7040 |